Meet founder Lucy
How Wild Things Rescue Started
While working in a vet practice, our founder Lucy, saw lots of sick, injured and orphaned wild animals come in needing help. Initially, animals were just triaged and Lucy would transport them to a nearby wildlife rescue. This meant that occasionally animals would stay for a few days, allowing Lucy and the others in the vets to learn more about their needs.
Knowing the strain on other rescues, Lucy started to care for the ‘easier’ cases under the guidance of other rehabbers, starting with hedgehogs before moving on to take in birds too. As word spread, Lucy got busier as a solo rehabber and decided it was time to create a better system.
2016 - Weetabix's Wildlife
Wild Things Rescue officially started in 2016 and was named Weetabix’s Wildlife after a little blind hedgehog who stole our hearts. We changed our name to Wild Things Rescue later down the line.
Working alongside vets in the county, Wild Things quickly went from strength to strength. At this point, Wild Things operated as a fostering system, with dedicated fosterers around the county.
2020 - Registered Charity
In 2018 Wild Things Rescue became a community interest company, with the intention of using our new structure to raise funds and expand the rescue. Unfortunately, this structure was limiting and the leap was finally taken to become a registered charity in 2020.
2022 - First Wildlife Centre
In 2022, Wild Things signed a 5-year lease on a property, enabling us to open our first Wildlife Centre! Here, we could accommodate a variety of birds and mammals, allowing us to help more animals and train more volunteers!
On average, we admit 1000 animals a year to our centre, with a wide range of animals coming through our doors, including hedgehogs, garden birds, and birds of prey.
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What we Do
Frequency Asked Questions
I have an animal in distress, how do I get in touch?
You can call us on 01526 578579 or send us a message on Facebook. We are open every day apart from Tuesdays and available between 9 am – 6 pm. If you have an animal in distress and we’re closed, please contact your nearest 24 hour vets for advice.
If I take a wild animal to the vets will I be charged or will they just put it to sleep?
All vets have a duty of care to animals and must offer first aid (which includes pain relief, fluids and warmth) or euthanasia as necessary.
We work really hard to maintain a good relationship with vets across the county who regularly contact us for advice. You will not be charged when you drop off a wild animal, if the vet chooses to prescribe medication, they get in touch with us and we cover the cost!
Vets will not unnecessarily put wildlife to sleep and we accept lots of wildlife from vets throughout the year.
Is the centre open to the public to look around?
Unfortunately we are unable to offer tours of our centre. The animals in our care are wild and therefore afraid of people.
Often they’re unwell and need all the rest they can get. It would be unethical of us to disturb them unnecessarily during their rehabilitation journey.
Do you do talks at schools and clubs?
Yes! If we’re available, we are happy to do talks.
Please note that we are unable to bring live animals with us to these talks as our patients are wild and it would cause them unnecessary stress. If you would like to organise a talk, please email Lucy on lucy@wildthingsrescue.uk
I’m interested in opening my own wildlife centre, what’s the best way to get started?
Come and volunteer! There are a lot of courses online, but not all of them are good.
The best way to find out whether wildlife rehabilitation is something you would like to put more time into is to come and see how we do things.
We’re happy to talk to you about the day-to-day running of the charity and the things it involves.
Please find information about volunteering on our ‘volunteer’ page.
How to find us
Our address is…
The Estates Offices,
Langrick,
PE22 7AN
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Volunteers Email: lucy@wildthingsrescue.uk
Animal Casualties Phone: 01526 578579